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blowing together heaps of Sand ; which Place is called 

 Dioryctus, and is in Length half a rnile. A Town in it is 

 called Leucas, formerly Neritum. Then the Cities of the 

 Acarnani, Halyzea, Stratos, Argos, surnamed Amphilo- 

 chicum. The River Achelous running out of Pindus, and 

 dividing Acarnania from jEtolia ; and by continual addition 

 of Earth joining the Island Artemita to the main Land. 



CHAPTER II. 

 JEtolia. 



THE jEtolian People are the Athamanes, Tymphei, 

 Ephiri, ^Enienses, Perrhoebi, Dolopes, Maraces and Atraces, 

 from whom the River Atrax falleth into the Ionian Sea. 

 The Town Calydon in .ZEtolia is seven Miles and a half from 

 the Sea, near to the River Evenus. Then followeth Ma- 

 cynia and Molychria ; behind which Chalcis standeth, and 

 the Mountain Taphiassus. But in the Borders, the Pro- 

 montory Antirrhium, where is the Mouth of the Corinthian 

 Gulf, not a Mile broad where it runneth in and divideth 

 the ^Etoli from Peloponnesus. The Promontory that shooteth 

 out against it is named Rhion : but in the Corinthian Gulf 

 are the Towns of ^Etolia, Naupactum, and Pylene : and in 

 the Midland parts, Pleuron, Halysarna. The Mountains of 

 name : in Dodone, Tomarus : in Ambracia, Grania : in 

 Acarnania, Aracynthus : in jEtolia, Acanthon, Pansetolium, 

 and Macinium. 



CHAPTER III. 

 Locri. 



NEXT to the ^Etoli are the Locri, surnamed Ozolse, free : 

 the Town Oeanthe : the Port of Apollo Phcestius : the Bay 

 Crissaeus. Within, the Towns Argyna, Eupalia, Phaestum, 

 and Calamissus. Beyond are Cirrhaei, the Plains of Phocis, 

 the Town Cirrha, the Port Chalseon : from which, seven 

 Miles within the Land, is the free City Delphi, under the 



